Using the existing SAP HANA platform it offers global visibility into operations by making manufacturing big data more accessible and enabling predictive analytics capabilities to be used in house or in the cloud. This gives businesses advanced problem solving ability and ease of access to manufacturing data so they can make improvements in cost, quality, asset utilisation and performance.

"The launch of SAP Manufacturing Execution is helping SAP to close in on the vision of running manufacturing operations in memory," says Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president Extended Supply Chain at SAP.

"By integrating manufacturing results with real-time feeds into SAP HANA, companies can take advantage of the cloud for orchestrating global performance management".